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ON SEEING THE LAUNCH OF THE BOYNE (1791)

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Sent by Bloomfield in a letter to his father-in-law, Joseph Church , who worked in
Woolwich shipyard. Letter 4, 28 December [17]91.

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THE SOLDIER’S RETURN (1786)

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Lines 13–21 from this piece were included by Capel Lofft in the Supplement to the
2nd edn of The Farmer’s Boy, where he remarked: ‘I think every Reader will be of opinion

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AN HARVEST SCENE (1786)

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Lines 28–35 from this poem were published by Capel Lofft (‘with a slight correction
in a place or two where the distribution or mechanism of the lines was not exact’)

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A VILLAGE GIRL (1786)

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This poem was first included in the preface to The Farmer’s Boy (with the title ‘The
Milk-Maid. On the First of May’) as a specimen of Bloomfield’s earliest attempts at

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Preface

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CONTENTS

Preface

Preface

Chronology of Bloomfield’s Life

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